Paris, France (SPX) Oct 18, 2021
Whether Venus, one of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets, ever had oceans remains an unsolved puzzle. Although an American study hypothesized that it did, this is now challenged in a paper published on October 14, 2021 in Nature, involving in particular scientists from the CNRS and University of Versailles-Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines1 (UVSQ). 
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Climate model shows that Venus could never have had oceans

Honolulu HI (SPX) Oct 18, 2021
Strike-slip faulting, the type of motion common to California's well-known San Andreas Fault, was reported recently to possibly occur on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. New research, led by planetary scientists from the University of Hawai?i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), suggests this tectonic motion may be active on Titan, deforming the icy surface. 
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San Andreas Fault-like tectonics discovered on Saturn moon Titan

Boston MA (SPX) Oct 18, 2021
In the early solar system, a "protoplanetary disk" of dust and gas rotated around the sun and eventually coalesced into the planets we know today. 
A new analysis of ancient meteorites by scientists at MIT and elsewhere suggests that a mysterious gap existed within this disk around 4.567 billion years ago, near the location where the asteroid belt resides today. 
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Scientists find evidence the early solar system harbored a gap between its inner and outer regions

Beijing (XNA) Oct 19, 2021
China's landmark six-month journey in space has left many curious about the differences between male and female astronauts. 
Wang Yaping, a 41-year-old female astronaut from Shandong province in East China, became the first Chinese woman to enter China's space station after the trio settled inside the Tianhe core module last week. 
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Chinese astronaut bridges gender gap

Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Oct 18, 2021
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observations of Jupiter's icy moon Europa have revealed the presence of persistent water vapor - but, mysteriously, only in one hemisphere. 
Europa harbors a vast ocean underneath its icy surface, which might offer conditions hospitable for life. This result advances astronomers' understanding of the atmospheric structure of icy moons, and helps lay the groundw

Hubble Finds Evidence of Persistent Water Vapor in One Hemisphere of Europa

Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 18, 2021
Not all ice is the same. The solid form of water comes in more than a dozen different - sometimes more, sometimes less crystalline - structures, depending on the conditions of pressure and temperature in the environment. Superionic ice is a special crystalline form, half solid, half liquid - and electrically conductive.

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The unusual magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 18, 2021
On 1 October 2021, an S50 solid-propellant rocket motor, which will form the first two stages of the new VLM-1 launch vehicle, successfully completed a static firing test in the operational area of Usina Coronel Abner (UCA), in Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo state, Brazil.

Successful static firing test with DLR involvement

Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 18, 2021
Deep in the solar system, between Jupiter and Neptune, lurk thousands of small chunks of ice and rock. Occasionally, one of them will bump into Jupiter's orbit, get caught and flung into the inner solar system-towards the sun, and us. 
This is thought to be the source of many of the comets that eventually pass Earth. A new study lays out the dynamics of this little-understood system. Among

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